Katherine Mansfield
"The mind I love most must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind."
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"The mind I love most must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind."
"العقل الذي أحبه أكثر من سواه لا بد أن يحوي أماكن برية، بستانًا متشابكًا تتساقط فيه الخوخات الداكنة على العشب الثقيل، غابة صغيرة عتيقة، احتمال وجود أفعى أو اثنتين، بركة لم يدرك أحد غورها، ودروبًا نسجتها زهور زرعها العقل نفسه."
Katherine Mansfield
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"It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask."
"الوحدة أمر فظيع – أجل، إنها كذلك – لكن لا تُسقط قناعك حتى تُعدّ قناعًا آخر تحته – فظيعًا كما تشاء – لكن قناعًا."
Katherine Mansfield
"I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing."
"لطالما شعرتُ أن أسمى امتيازات الصداقة، وما فيها من راحة وطمأنينة، يكمن في كون المرء لا يحتاج فيها إلى تبرير شيء."
Katherine Mansfield
"Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different."
Katherine Mansfield
"I want by understanding myself to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming."
Katherine Mansfield
"Make it a rule of life never to regret and never look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy you can't build on it it's good only for wallowing in."
Katherine Mansfield
"Regret is an appalling waste of energy you can't build on it it is good only for wallowing."
Katherine Mansfield
"Could we change our attitude we should not only see life differently but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude."
Katherine Mansfield
"We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties."
Katherine Mansfield
"We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. ... What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties."
Katherine Mansfield
"I am treating you as my friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses."
Katherine Mansfield
"I always felt that the great high privilege relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing."
Katherine Mansfield
"When we can begin to take our failures non-seriously it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves."
Katherine Mansfield
"When we begin to take our failures non-seriously it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves."
Katherine Mansfield
"Risk! Risk anything! ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth."
Katherine Mansfield
"We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. But the tremendous effort needed- one doesn't always want to make it-does one? ... But what else can be done? What's the alternative? What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties."
Katherine Mansfield
"Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become love. That is the mystery."
Katherine Mansfield
"Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes."
Katherine Mansfield
"The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody's fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind."
Katherine Mansfield
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